'I pulled on everything...I was stuck': Westjet passenger mistakenly locked in hall for hours at Calgary airport

A Winnipeg man took to TikTok to document his experience of getting locked down a hallway for hours while trying to catch a flight from Calgary to Las Vegas.

Ayden Schumacher missed a connecting flight after arriving from Winnipeg in Calgary on Feb 28, and was told by staff at American customs to head back to Canadian customs. However, when he made his way down the hallway, which he describes as the hallway that leads to the airplane when passengers are boarding, the door on the other end was locked.

When Schumacher turned around to get back to where he’d entered, it turned out to be locked too.

“There were a couple of other doors and I pulled on everything I could find but I was stuck in there,” he tells Yahoo News Canada.

So the University of Manitoba law student took to TikTok to document his bizarre experience. At one point, another person walked by the locked glass doors and Schumacher called out to her to let her know he was trapped. Unfortunately she told him he couldn’t help, but he was hopeful she’d come back.

After a phone call to the airport, someone arrived to talk to Schumacher, and told him to meet him around the other side where he’d originally come through. Ultimately, that airport employee couldn’t help him either, telling him it would be a breach, so Schumacher waited a while longer.

After waiting over an hour, he then reached out American border security at the airport, who told him they would find help.

Once more than two hours passed, a security guard came to rescue Schumacher, and walked him through to Canadian customs.